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Main Entry: insecurity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: anxiety

Synonyms:

doubt, hesitancy, indecision, self-doubt, uncertainty, vacillation
Main Entry: insecurity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: danger

Synonyms:

hazard, instability, precariousness, vulnerability
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Main Entry: insecurity
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
top, unprepared, adventurous, alarming, at bay, at stake, at the last extremity, between Scylla and Charybdis, between the hammer and the anvil, between two fires, built upon sand, critical, crumbling, dangerous, defenseless, endangered, explosive, exposed, expugnable, fenceless, fraught with danger, guardless, guideless, hanging by a thread, harborless, hazardous, helpless, ill, in danger, in question, in the lion's den, insecure, naufrageous, nightfoundered, nodding to its fall, not out of the wood, off one's guard, ominous, on a lee shore, on a sandy basis, on slippery ground, on the brink, on the edge, on the rocks, on the verge of a precipice, on the verge of a volcano, on the wrong side of the wall, open to, parlous, periculant, periculous, perilous, precarious, ramshackle, reduced to the last extremity, shaky, slippery, slippy, threatening, ticklish, trembling in the balance, tumbledown, unadmonished, unadvised, under fire, unprotected, unsafe, unshielded, unstable, unsteady, untrustworthy, unwarned, vertiginous, vulnerable, waterlogged, with a halter around one's neck
Main Entry: danger
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hazard, troublesome situation

Synonyms:

clouds, crisis, double trouble, dynamite, emergency, endangerment, exigency, exposure, hot potato, insecurity, instability, jeopardy, menace, peril, pitfall, possibility, precariousness, precipice, probability, risk, risky business, slipperiness, storm, thin ice, threat, uncertainty, venture, vulnerability

Antonyms:

care, carefulness, guard, preservation, safety, security
Main Entry: diffidence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hesitancy; lack of confidence

Synonyms:

backwardness, bashfulness, constraint, doubt, fear, hesitation, humility, insecurity, meekness, modesty, mousiness, reluctance, reserve, self-consciousness, sheepishness, shyness, timidity, timidness, timorousness, unassertiveness

Antonyms:

boldness, confidence
Main Entry: instability
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: imbalance, inconstancy

Synonyms:

alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude, insecurity, irregularity, irresolution, mutability, oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness, shakiness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness

Antonyms:

balance, constancy, soundness, stability, steadfastness
Main Entry: jeopardy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: danger, trouble

Synonyms:

accident, chance, double-trouble, endangerment, exposure, hazard, insecurity, liability, on the line, on the spot, out on a limb, peril, precariousness, risk, venture, vulnerability

Antonyms:

protection, safety
Main Entry: peril
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: danger, risk

Synonyms:

cause for alarm, double trouble, endangerment, exposure, hazard, insecurity, jeopardy, liability, menace, openness, pitfall, risky business, uncertainty, vulnerability

Antonyms:

safeness, safety, security
Main Entry: qualm
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: nagging doubt

Synonyms:

agitation, anxiety, apprehension, compunction, conscience, demur, disquiet, foreboding, hesitation, indecision, insecurity, misdoubt, misgiving, mistrust, nervousness, objection, pang, perturbation, presentiment, regret, reluctance, remonstrance, remorse, scruple, suspicion, twinge, uncertainty, unease, uneasiness

Antonyms:

approval, comfort, contentedness
Main Entry: suspense
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: anticipation

Synonyms:

anxiety, apprehension, chiller, cliff-hanger, cloak and dagger, confusion, dilemma, doubt, eagerness, expectancy, expectation, grabber, hesitancy, hesitation, impatience, indecision, indecisiveness, insecurity, irresolution, page-turner, perplexity, potboiler, tension, thriller, uncertainty, wavering

Antonyms:

knowledge
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